Back in hospital!

MONDAY 7th NOVEMBER:

Today we are back in the hospital (UCH) for the second course of chemotherapy. Joni-Mai had a fun weekend to take her thoughts away from going back in to hospital for the week, on Saturday she went to the pictures with Gramma, Laura and Harriet to see TinTin and on Sunday we had some good friends over for tea. Our visitors on Sunday were particularly special - Katie, Anna and Monique - as they are members of a wonderful group of acting, singing, dancing and quite frankly magical storytellers called Tiger Tales. They arrived with a ukelele and lots of songs to sing to the little monkey, we had a wonderful evening and our minds were relaxed and refreshed after singing and listening to Anna sing and play the uke.

After a peaceful sleep, we woke to get ready (which is always a stressful rush in the Stevens household...) for another week in hospital for round 2 of the chemotherapy. We arrived in London with lots of time before our appointment in clinic and so we went for a hot chocolate, Joni-Mai preferred to drink grandad's Lilt and eat biscuits. After our clinic appointment, it was time to make our way to ward T11, the ward upon which Joni-Mai is being treated. She spent the afternoon in the school room and once school had finished, she chilled out on her bed playing games on phones and on her Nintendo DS. While she was chilling out, we heard the voices of excited patients talking about meeting Justin Bieber! On investigation, I found out the he had indeed been on ward T12 (the adolescent ward, a floor above us) and some of the patients had gone from our ward to see him. Unfortunately, Joni-Mai wasn't invited because she wasn't a teenager - the visit had been arranged by the Teenage Cancer Trust - which is actually quite mean (in my own honest opinion). I know it would have made her the happiest girl alive, and it was sad that her friends got to go but she never!

Never mind!!!

We spent the evening playing with her new friends, learnt how to play Uno and ate copious amounts of sweeties.

Oh, and we aren't starting chemo today - they can't find her notes!! D'oh!